Indian States & UTs GK Questions with Answers – Page 14

The figure of Gommateshwara, also called Bahubali, stands about fifty-seven feet high on Vindhyagiri hill at Shravanabelagola in Hassan district and was raised by Chavundaraya, a minister and general of the Western Ganga kingdom, towards the end of the tenth century.

ISRO has its headquarters at Antariksh Bhavan in Bengaluru, which also holds the U R Rao Satellite Centre and the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network.

Mullayanagiri, in Chikkamagaluru district in the Baba Budangiri range of the Western Ghats, rises to about one thousand nine hundred and thirty metres and is the highest point in Karnataka.

The Sharavathi is a west-flowing river of Karnataka, and at Jog in Shivamogga district it drops in four separate cascades named Raja, Rani, Rocket and Roarer, making one of the highest waterfalls in India.

The state was created on 1 November 1956 under the States Reorganisation Act with the name Mysore State, and it was renamed Karnataka on 1 November 1973, a day now observed every year as Karnataka Rajyotsava.

The Kaleshwaram project lifts water from the Godavari in the north of Telangana and carries it in stages through pump houses, tunnels and reservoirs to the drier districts of the plateau, which lie at a higher level than the river.

The Sammakka Saralamma Jatara, also called the Medaram Jatara, is held once in two years at Medaram in Mulugu district, in the forest tract of the former Warangal region.

He was the fifth ruler of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda, and he founded the city of Hyderabad and raised the Charminar there in 1591.

Bathukamma is celebrated for nine days during Navaratri, when women arrange seasonal flowers, chiefly the yellow tangedu, in the shape of a cone on a brass plate, sing and move around it in the evening, and finally float it in a tank or a stream.

The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 fixed 2 June 2014 as the appointed day, and from that date Telangana existed as the twenty-ninth state of India.

The temple at Palampet in Mulugu district was built in 1213 during the reign of the Kakatiya ruler Ganapati Deva, by his general Recherla Rudra, and it is dedicated to Shiva as Rudreswara.

Bonalu is celebrated in the month of Ashada, roughly July and August, when women carry cooked rice with milk and jaggery in decorated pots on their heads as an offering to the goddess Mahakali.

Telugu is the first official language of Telangana and Urdu is the second. The place of Urdu goes back to the Hyderabad state of the Nizams, where it was the language of administration and education, and a large Urdu speaking population still lives in Hyderabad and the surrounding districts.

Telangana adopted the Indian roller, known in Telugu as palapitta, as its state bird soon after the state was formed in 2014.

Parliament passed the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act in 2014, and the appointed day fixed under the Act was 2 June 2014, the date on which Telangana came into being as the twenty-ninth state.

Telangana was separated from Andhra Pradesh and came into existence on 2 June 2014 as the twenty-ninth state of India.

When Telangana was created on 2 June 2014 under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, Hyderabad became its capital, and the Act further provided that the city would serve as the common capital of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for a period of not more than ten years.

When Telangana was separated in 2014 the two states shared the old High Court at Hyderabad for a few years; a separate Andhra Pradesh High Court was then constituted and began functioning at Amaravati, the new capital on the bank of the Krishna, on 1 January 2019, while the court…

Mangampet, in the Kadapa basin of Rayalaseema, holds one of the world's largest single deposits of barytes, the ore of barium, which is used as a weighting agent in oil well drilling mud, in paint and in glass.

The Eastern Naval Command has its headquarters at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, the only natural harbour on India's eastern seaboard, and the city also has the Hindustan Shipyard, a submarine base and the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant.